Bible Verses About Honoring Your Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for honoring your parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,433 votes, led by Exodus 20:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Honoring Your Parents
Exodus 20:12169 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Ephesians 6:2-3163 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Ephesians 6:1141 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:1-24105 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:1-387 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Leviticus 20:985 votes
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Leviticus 19:377 votes
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 5:1673 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 20:2072 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Colossians 3:2069 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:257 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Proverbs 23:2251 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
1 Timothy 5:449 votes
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
1 Timothy 5:846 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Exodus 21:1542 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Deuteronomy 21:18-2137 votes
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Matthew 15:437 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Romans 13:137 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1335 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Leviticus 19:3233 votes
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 1:8-933 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Exodus 20:1-2631 votes
And God spake all these words, saying,
Genesis 2:2430 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Timothy 5:130 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Exodus 21:1729 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
What does the Bible say about honoring your parents?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:12 on the subject of honoring your parents. Across 2,433 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 6:2-3, Ephesians 6:1, Ephesians 6:1-24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.